The U.S. Department of Agriculture has temporarily suspended the 1890 Scholars Program, a scholarship initiative that provides significant financial support to students attending HBCUs. The program was designed to attract more students to agricultural fields by covering full tuition,

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has abruptly paused a college scholarship program for students from rural or underserved communities attending historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs),

The 1890 scholars program aims to increase the number of agriculture students at the country's 19 historically Black land-grant universities, which are federally funded and tend to have significant agricultural programs.